Peter BindelsI installed Windows.
Oliver Schönrockis this a follow up on our "ideapad" adventure from last week?
@oschonrock No, unrelated. Firmware update is now done (after 4.5 hours of wrestling with Windows installers and 20 minutes of firmware flashing), so back to normality.
wow.. well done.. I have avoided it.. couldn't face it.. knew it would be half a day.
did you manage to boot windoze
off USB in the end?
@oschonrock It did work. Just about the last attempt before I was going to "call a friend". @janwilmans linked me https://itsfoss.com/bootable-windows-usb-linux/ which tells you to use Ventoy, which apparently allows it to boot from EFI, and breaks the argument between the EFI/Bios and Windows setup.
great to know
I 'll save that reference in case I get reallllly bored over xmas
@oschonrock No wait, partially related. I had myself confused with my laptop and desktop and thought I needed Windows for the BIOS as well. Desktop has an Asrock mobo and they just give you a file to put on a fat32 usb stick. Could've done that any point in the past 3 years...
Yeah.. that's the way.. !
why do we need a whole 64bit GUI and GBs of OS to write some stuff to to flash on the MB?
@oschonrock you forgot Cortana, online logins and uploading whatever it can get its hands on.
@oschonrock First time I've had to unplug a network cable to be able to continue installing.